2010 Bill 42

	42


Third Session, 46th General Assembly 59 Elizabeth II, 2010
BILL 42
AN ACT TO AMEND THE REGIONAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES ACT
Received and Read the First Time...................................................................................................
Second Reading.................................................................................................................................
Committee............................................................................................................................................
Third Reading.....................................................................................................................................
Royal Assent......................................................................................................................................
HONOURABLE JEROME P. KENNEDY, Q.C. Minister of Health and Community Services
Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would provide that a regional health authority is exempt from the Public Tender Act with respect to its acquisition of goods and services through a group purchasing organization of which it is a member.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE REGIONAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES ACT

Analysis

        1.   Ss.17.1 to 17.3 Added
17.1 Group purchasing
        organizations
17.2                       Exemption from Public
        Tender Act
17.3                       Report to the minister

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2006 cR-7.1

1. The Regional Health Authorities Act is amended by adding immediately after section 17 the following:

Group purchasing organizations

17.1 (1) An authority, with the prior approval of the minister, may join a group purchasing organization.

(2) An authority that joined a group purchasing organization before this section came into force is considered to have joined with the approval of the minister.

Exemption from Public Tender Act

17.2 (1) An authority is exempt from the Public Tender Act with respect to goods and services that it acquires through a group purchasing organization of which it is a member.

(2) An authority that acquired goods and services through a group purchasing organization before this section came into force is considered to have been exempt from the Public Tender Act with respect to that acquisition.

Report to the minister

17.3 (1) An authority shall report to the minister on its acquisition of goods and services through a group purchasing organization and shall include a summary of contracts entered into and the identities of suppliers to whom the contracts have been awarded every 6 months.

(2) The minister shall make the reports required under subsection (1) public by

(a) presenting them to the House of Assembly; and

(b) other effective means, including electronically.

(3) Section 19.1 of the House of Assembly Act applies to a report referred to in subsection (2) as if it were a report of an officer of the House of Assembly.